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Also isn't yandere that one where you want to kill them or kill anyone who tries to take them away from you?
Yes. "If I can't have you, nobody will," and "I am so jealous I will kill you because I love you," kind of stuff. 
Just use pen and nearest neighbor and PS is awesome tool for pixelart. I have used it many years almost daily
+1
Turn off all interpolation features, zoom in, and start clicking around. What more do you need for pixelart?
Not really feeling the all-copper front, but that speckling on the back is really beautiful.
Is it pronounced "innate" or "nate"?
You did a pretty good job with the getting "authentic"sounding sounds, man. The compositions are nice too.
I don't know what others have to say, but I say don't feel like you have to "legitimize" yourself by moving on to only LSDJ forever. Plenty of artists use a variety of formats and systems for their music.
I seriously doubt you'll be able to live up to that statement of "every release from now on will use that [LSDJ]", hehe. There's so much more stuff out there.
The only thing I'd say is try to employ a few more tricks* to create more texture in your sounds and, considering you weren't as restricted in variety of waveforms, It would have been okay to use more than just square waves.
I thought the compositions were really good, if sometimes repetitive. Just the vanilla sounds get tiring after awhile and makes it feel a bit sterile.
Edit: That being said, I really enjoyed listening to this. It was fun 
I think Typhoon is my favorite, and the kick in code red is pretty sweet.
I can definitely hear the influences in your music. Keep it up.
* I personally like leads with some soulful vibrato, but that's just my preference. Also, block chords usually sound pretty good with some volume swells going on. Straight constant volume square-wave chords usually sound blah. Usually.
Having multiple samples in a single drum instrument has been incredibly useful for me, as I can create my drum patterns quickly and efficiently without having to change instruments. I can just map my kick to C, my snare to E, and my hi-hats to G# and A#, and my toms can fill in all the white keys from the higher C down to F.
I mean it may take a little more time to setup, but it improves my workflow and you can always save your drums.xi and just replace the samples in later projects if you don't want to keep recycling the same drums. That's the closest you'll get to doing it automatically.
i just put my gameboy up to the laptop mic and record it in sound recorder
can only be 1 minute long tho
I used to do this back in 2000-01 when I first started making music with my yamaha keyboard. What I'd do is press record, and then get ready to press record again as soon as the one minute stops. I got pretty good at it and sometimes you couldn't even notice the sound skip every 1 minute.
After awhile I got smart and realized I could actually re-record over previous recordings. What this meant is that I could record 5 minutes of ambience in sound recorder, "Decrease Volume" over and over until you can't hear it anymore, then rewind to the beginning and record the actual song over those 5 minutes without having any hiccups or the 60 second time limit. You just have to remember to delete everything after the song is over just in case you didn't actually "Decrease Volume" to complete silence. Otherwise after your song is over you'll faintly hear your mom in the kitchen or your brother and sisters playing 2Xtreme or something.
Then I found Acid Xpress but didn't realize I could actually use it to record multitrack music and not just short loops so I never used it except for little loopy beats.
And then I realized you could change the input device of sound recorder to line-in or mute it so you can just record silence without picking up sound from the microphone, but at that time I discovered Audacity and stopped using Sound Recorder except for quick "doodles" of song ideas.
One thing that sound recorder was really useful to me was with making music for Game Maker games. SInce wav files take up a lot of space, but mp3 files don't loop properly, I found out that you could compress wav files to a mpeg layer-3 format and it didn't sound too horrible, it took up waaaay less space, and it looped perfectly in game maker.
Yeah, china has some pretty cheap-but-not-horrible android things, and they are often pre-rooted to boot. I have a Kocaso m750b 7" tablet that runs pretty well, responsive touch-screen and stuff. The only problem is the camera is horrible, the a/v sync is bad especially on recorded videos (haven't tried transferring them to my PC to see if it's simply a playback problem on the device or if it actually records videos out of sync), the microphone is terrible and leaves out a lot of frequencies of live music like hi-hats, and it distorts easily. Also the speaker is horrible! and way too quiet and it's on the bottom right where you might put one of your fingers while using the tablet so that makes it even worse.
That being said, at 512 mb of ram, 1.2 ghz processor, capacitive touch screen it's not all that bad. It works and I enjoy it and I can even play those platform games like Megatroid and Meganoid without feeling like a laggy-monster. Sometimes programs freeze up, though. I have no idea how much it costs because I got it for going to a timeshare seminar, lol. It
If you were in the US I'd suggest picking up a 60-80$ Kodak/Emerson/Uniden tablet from Big Lots or Rose's or similar places like that. I have a 4.3" Emerson tablet which seems to be running the smartphone version of android and they are a good bang for the buck and have a moderately loud speaker and a good microphone that picks up pretty much everything, kick, snare, hats, bass, piano, voices, etc. though I recently discovered it distorts at super loud( read: concert level) volumes , however beware that the small 4.3" ones have pretty bad battery-life. I don't know how it is with the larger tablets, though.
I agree that it'd be better to post in each indidivual release thread that you like.
This reminds me of that cm.o love fest thread thingy that we had last year.
I will once again think AndrewKilpatrick for and schooling me on newbie etiquette for joining a long established "scene"/community, and also for listening to my side of the story. Though I think I still sometimes make some of the same mistakes I made when I first joined... <_<
>_>
... I hope opinion has improved...
Basically I'm thankful for everybody here who calls out all the stupidity/silliness that goes on. You know who you are.
Duuuuuude that's messed up. ;_;
I forgive you.
mod only chat, tho? Man... and I can't even get into the IRC either... lol.
Sounding good, though.
Edit: Yay, I'm in the irc
I've been there* for the last hour but nothing is happening?
Edit: OFFLINE
hey it's pretty easy just keep checking your music pages to see how many more listens you've got since last time you checked to see how many listens you got
Chipmusic.org: The Confessional
Go ahead, man. Let it all out. You don't have to feel about the way you are. There's nothing wrong with writing music to express yourself and hoping that it somehow enriches a fellow person's life in some way. It's okay for you to care if your music holds meaningfulness for somebody other than yourself. I mean, it'd be pretty wanky if you didn't. What would be the point of writing and displaying your art? Wanting to write music for the enjoyment of your fellow man is the opposite of wank.
Intercourse is healthy.
So go ahead, stop beating yourself up over these urges you have. It's okay. Everything is going to be alright. I mean, you write chipmusic. You post it online, so you may as well enjoy it when you see that somebody else appreciates your hard or soft work.
Also, if it's wrong to write music and get paid/compensated for it then all my classical heroes are villains!??!! D: Chipmusic is not any more special than any other type of music. Why does it get such partial treatment?
I don't see how being a musician is not a worthwhile occupation. I mean, music enriches the soul. Without music many people wouldn't even be able to get through their work day, and then the whole work-force would collapse and nobody would be able to do anything that contributes to their community!! ;_;
Edit: I understand that chipmusic is not worth a whole lot of money to a whole lot of people right now, but meh. It's not like a scientific law or something.
There are a lot of them, but I'll just keep it short.
Kubbi and his bassist friend
Feryl
Toriena :3
Frostbyte
Vince Kaichan
chibi-tech
fearofdark
Unicorn Dream Attack
PROTODOME
nullsleep
the aanaanaanaanaa(naanaa?) collective
ant1
Twistboy
OP: Exactly how "long" have you been into chipmusic? Do you even "chiptune"?
One thing I'd suggest you do is just get into it with no ulterior motives and just explore and see what it's all about and enjoy the music and stuff.
C64 - "I'm hack y'all, and I'm hack y'all, and I'm hacker than hack cuz I crack, y'all. I'm hack hack hackity hack hackuh hackibackihack hack hack and I'm hack y'all"
Has anybody suggested "Bitstreet Boys" yet?
Just8-Bitber - "Beauty and a Bit"
Metoolica - "Hack and Demo`" (actually... I think Metoolica is kind of cool... hmm...)
ultramega wrote:jackary, very cool of you! thanks for the help, i'll remember this!
and yaa 2x clear DMG shells, no battery cover on either, still for sale
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Game-Boy-Classi … 58998fe14f
But don't let the lack of battery covers stop you from buying, they are easy to find.
I wonder, like... does anybody ever find those lost battery covers? What if the battery cover you lost 15 years ago turned up on ebay because somebody moved into your old house and found it on top of the kitchen cabinets?
Or are they just lost forever?
hmm...
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